IDA Founder Linda Buzzell tells the story of how IDA began.
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Last summer, as part of an exchange program with the University of Southern California and the Communication University of China, I set off with six

Doc-makers weigh in on their teaching careers.

Over the last half-century or so, documentary filmmaking has evolved as a formidable and expansive institution. In the US, filmmakers have built a

Natalia Almada was born in Sinaola, Mexico, to a Mexican father and an American mother, grew up in Chicago, and now maintains residences in both

Nicolas Noxon reflects on his 50 years in television.

There was a time, not long ago, when the thought of using material that could not be cleared was quickly banished from a documentarian's mind

Read our Q&A with America's most philosophical and ironic filmmaker.

So, Americans elected its first African-American president. Time to ring in a "post-racial" New World Order? Time for a new chapter in ethnic

Forty years ago, an ebullient civil rights movement brought the plight of many marginalized Americans to the frontier of a slumbering national